Blog

The Transport Secretary’s rejection of REL Haulage’s application serves as a cautionary tale that proves the old adage that one should never count their chickens before they have hatched.

HGVC will oversee the training of 750 new drivers in England, while Logistics UK will provide drivers with soft skills training, and Manpower will support qualified drivers in their search for suitable roles in the industry.

Electric heavy good vehicles have set a new world record, as an electric truck travels over 1000km without requiring a recharge.

Lorry drivers and bricklayers are raking in bonus paychecks as a skills shortage means they are in huge demand.

The haulage and road transport industry has said that the new UK government measures introduced to tackle the driver shortage crisis will not provide immediate relief

A haulage firm manager has described new temporary rules introduced by the government to extend the permitted hours haulage drivers can spend on the roads as like a “sticking plaster on wet cement”.

Logistics UK has said that the Welsh government needs to rethink and reverse its decision to freeze all road-building projects while it reviews the impact on the climate emergency, describing the move as a ‘step back’.

The organisation that represents the freight and haulage equipment industry published statistics that suggest that 16,000 fewer lorry drivers are currently working in the UK compared to the start of 2021.

Driver shortages in the UK haulage sector have hit ‘catastrophic proportions’, according to the Road Haulage Association (RHA), which reports a loss of 15,000 drivers since Brexit.